Dov Bernhard Galmor-Geier S.L.
Unfortunately we had to carry a member of our association to the grave. We have created a page in German and English on which we and others tell about him.…
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14th August 2020
Former Northern Part of East Prussia (Ostpreussen), Germany, till 1945
Jewish holiday home Neuhäuser
10 years "Jewish holiday home Neuhaeuser"Line up for the children's festival In the early summer of 1921 a Jewish children's holiday home was built in Neuhäuser, which was based on…
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4th August 2020
Hermann Lapidas alias Hosias Rischmann
He was born in 1848 in Vilkaviškis as Hosias Rischmann and had received his education as a young man in a yeshiva in Vilnius and at Salanter in Kaunas. Since 1895 he was in charge of the congregation in Seckenburg.
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14th July 2020
Online Exhibition
We invite you to take the opportunity to visit the exhibition of 2017! Learn more about the little known aspects of life in Königsberg at the turn of the century.…
27th April 2020
The East Prussian banker Marx
From a small local institution to a dominant bank. George Marx: A successful immigrant in Königsberg, in: Bankers and banks as actors in the economic, political and cultural network in (north-eastern) Europe of the 16th - 20th century
24th April 2020
Synagogue in Labiau
A picture of the synagogue in Labiau (today Polessk in Russia) was found. The local historian Svetlana Chelnokova reports on her page "Sites of Jewish History in Kaliningrad/Königsberg" about a…
19th April 2020
The Laaser family in Tilsit
The Laaser family in Tilsit owned several sawmills. Eugen Laaser was the president of the Tilsit Chamber of Commerce and had an art nouveau villa built, which still stands in…
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9th February 2020
Association of Jewish Students in Koenigsberg
The Association of Jewish Students was founded in Königsberg in 1904. Here the association had its seat on the Kneiphof (Cathedral island) in the house under the address Kleiner Domplatz…
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2nd February 2020
First pictures of the Mikveh
In January 2020 we were able to take a look at the shell of the mikveh, which is located in the basement of the recently inaugurated synagogue in Kaliningrad. Now the city of Kaliningrad has got a centre for a Jewish identity as a community again. Let's hope to be able to further complete the dream that has recently come true.
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23rd January 2020
Kaliningrad: News from the Old Cemetery
12 January 2020: The so-called Old Jewish Cemetery in Königsberg continues to send signals to us. With every visit we find new gravestones, this time a couple known to us was present - because they had bought entrance tickets for the opening of the synagogue in 1896.
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14th January 2020
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